Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI

The family of one of the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge is suing OpenAI.

The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to chat prompts from the shooter related to violence.

The claim was filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday on behalf of Gebala by her mother, Cia Edmonds.

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Amy Hamm: Tumbler Ridge inquiry will require bravery from public officials

British Columbia’s chief coroner announced this week that he will hold an inquest into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Any inquest will be fruitless — and perhaps even counterproductive — if run by persons too afraid to ask politically uncomfortable questions.

I worry this will be the case — because Canada’s institutions are brimming with people who do whatever our loud, “progressive” minority tells them to do.
Regarding Tumbler Ridge, the difficult questions we must ask include what role, if any, gender ideology played in one of Canada’s worst mass shootings.

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Conservatives call for federal independent inquiry on Tumbler Ridge mass shooting

The federal Conservatives are calling for an independent inquiry on the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., to understand what happened and how to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future.

“We have a responsibility so that it never happens again, and I think that an inquiry will find those answers and then make recommendations,” said Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, whose riding covers Tumbler Ridge.

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Shooter had second ChatGPT account, OpenAI reveals as it overhauls safety protocols

OTTAWA — OpenAI says it is taking “immediate actions” to overhaul safety protocols after it chose not to report a Canadian ChatGPT user that police say went on to kill eight people, including six at a secondary school.

On Thursday, the tech giant revealed that the perpetrator managed to create a second account after OpenAI shut down the first over problematic entries.

The company has since faced scrutiny for not reporting the account to police amid questions about its ability to track banned users.

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Identity, Action, and the Truth About the Massacre in Tumbler Ridge

The devastating fruit of Canada’s capitulation to hyper-left-wing ideology.

On Feb. 10, 2026, Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old transgender male, attacked the community of Tumbler Ridge and its Middle School, whereupon he brutally murdered 8 people and wounded 27 others, before he subsequently divorced himself from all existence in the “deadliest school shooting since 14 women were killed in the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.”

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Canada seeks answers from OpenAI for failing to alert police after suspending school shooter’s account

Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he has summoned representatives from the technology company OpenAI after the company declined to alert police after suspending the account of a user who became the perpetrator of one of the country’s worst-ever school shootings.

Evan Solomon says he is “deeply disturbed” by reports that the company, which operates the popular ChatGPT chatbot, suspended the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar over the “furtherance of violent activities” in June 2025 but did not reach out to Canadian law enforcement.

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Terry Newman: We need an inquest into the Tumbler Ridge shooting

The community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has suffered the tragic loss of eight victims — all but two under 14 years of age. A picture is quickly emerging of a community that was failed on multiple levels by mental-health services and law enforcement. Now that the dust has settled, it’s time for an independent investigation into how this tragedy happened in the first place, in the hope that changes can be made so that something like this never happens again.

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Trans shooter epidemic unmasked? Poll uncovers potential link to ongoing attacks

In less than two weeks, two deadly shootings — both allegedly by transgender-identifying biological males. One was a school rampage in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that killed eight people, and the other a targeted family attack during a youth hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where two of the alleged shooter’s family members were left dead.

h/t handy n handsome

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Chris Cobb: In 1975, Ottawa suffered one of Canada’s first school shootings. There was no playbook for how to respond

It was Monday, Oct. 27, 1975 when Ottawa student Robert Poulin walked into a religion class packed with his fellow students and sprayed bullets before killing himself in the hall outside.

One of his victims died and several other students in a packed religion class at St. Pius X High School were shot by a deeply troubled classmate who had raped and murdered Glebe Collegiate student Kim Rabot in the basement of his home earlier that day.

(Incognito)

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The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding

In what is becoming a regular occurrence, someone trans-identifying is accused of committing a mass murder, this time during a high school hockey game, in suburban Rhode Island.

Robert Dorgan, who preferred to be called Roberta, killed his ex-wife and one of his own children and shot three more people before turning a gun on himself.

In 2020, Dorgan had told police that he was being kicked out of his home, by his father-in-law, after Dorgan had undergone “gender-reassignment surgery.”

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OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June

Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said.

While using ChatGPT last June, Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days, according to people familiar with the matter.

Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.

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RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting

Robert Dorgan – the sick man who shot up his own family

The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game in Rhode Island threatened to go “BERSERK” in a trans-rights rant just a day before he massacred two family members and injured three others.

Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where his son was playing on Monday afternoon — less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings.

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Stop Pretending the Tumbler Ridge Killer Was Female

The sight of Canadian police and journalists extending fraudulent courtesies to a trans-identified mass-murderer may prove to be a clarifying moment.

On 10 February, Jesse Van Rootselaar (also known as Jesse Strang) killed eight people in the remote British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge. The first two victims were the killer’s mother and half-brother, whom Van Rootselaar shot at home. Van Rootselaar then went to a local secondary school and murdered six more people—five of whom were twelve- or thirteen-year-old students—before committing suicide. Twenty-seven others were injured. It was the deadliest Canadian school shooting in almost four decades, and the highest-casualty mass-shooting event in the nation’s history.

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Dad dressed in women’s clothing shoots wife, 3 kids in horror ‘family dispute’ at Lynch Arena hockey tournament in Rhode Island

Shooting at ice rink in Pawtucket ends with 3 people dead, 3 injured

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — Three people, including the suspected shooter, were dead and three people were injured in a shooting Monday at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena ice rink in Pawtucket during a high school hockey game between two co-op teams.

… NBC 10’s Dan Jaehnig reported, citing a law enforcement source, that the suspect was a father, who may have been dressed in women’s clothing, and that he intentionally targeted family members who were at the hockey game.

Local news is reporting that the shooter at the hockey rink tonight was a man in women’s clothing pic.twitter.com/GnjA5H5nia

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 17, 2026

h/t Patthedog

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